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Jason Arnott has officially announced his retirement.

Arnott scored 417 goals and 938 points in 1,244 career games with the Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Dallas Stars, Nashville Predators, Washington Capitals, and St. Louis Blues. Although he was never an elite forward, he had a great career and played a big role in the New Jersey Devils winning the Stanley Cup in 2000. Through his prime, he was remarkably consistent, netting at least 20 goals for 10 straight campaigns. He's tied for 79th place on the NHL's all-time games played list and is 90th in points. Tue, Nov 5, 2013 02:26:00 PM

Jason Arnott continues to skate with the St. Louis Blues, who are expected to make a decision on whether to sign the veteran center by Sunday.

Arnott's deal with the Rangers earlier in the season fell apart when he was unable to pass a physical. Arnott had offseason knee surgery and said Tuesday that he wants to see how the knee responds to on-ice work. "If everything goes well and my body feels good, hopefully we can both say yes and move forward and contribute to win," Arnott said. Sounds like we should know more by the end of the week. Wed, Mar 6, 2013 11:08:00 AM

The St. Louis Blues are looking once again at unrestricted free agent Jason Arnott.

Arnott inked a deal with the Rangers over a month ago but the center was unable to pass his physical voiding the deal. He played through shoulder and knee issues with St. Louis and with the Blues currently struggling, he is on their radar. "I talked to Jason's representative and he said he still has that burning desire to play," GM Doug Armstrong said. "It made me start to think, if you've accomplished everything he has, and you’re into March and you still want to play, you have the passion for the game. He's going to join us this week on the road trip, make sure his body is with his mind and that he is ready to play. He did have some offseason surgery. We have information from the doctors that he is ready to go." Stay tuned. Mon, Mar 4, 2013 11:42:00 AM

Depth Charts

Stastny got his second goal of the season 74 seconds into the second period, but the Panthers scored the next five markers to give St. Louis a loss for the first time this year. Stastny has six points in five matches on the team's top line.

It's the second time in three summers that Berglund has suffered a shoulder injury while training. "This one came completely out of the blue, so it hit me much harder," Berglund said. "You haven’t had any problems with it and out of nowhere you’ve got an injury with this much magnitude. It happened right at the beginning of my workout. I was doing some sledwork outside on the pavement. I was going to max push the sled forward. You keep your arm out straight and you go down really low to get that power, and right when I was going to push, I slipped with the foot that I was pushing with and my body launched forward. I didn’t get the chance to protect my arms and my shoulder, so my body went forward and I got stuck in a bad position." Berglund is expected to return to the Blues lineup in December.

Oskar Sundqvist is projected to begin the year as St. Louis' third-line center.

He outperformed Ivan Barbashev for the position at training camp. Sundqvist earned the job because "he's been more reliable in his defensive play, a little more consistent in his overall play," according to coach Mike Yeo. Sundqvist has also been strong on faceoffs.

Kyle Brodziak will be a healthy scratch in Game 4 against Nashville on Tuesday night.

Brodziak had been in St. Louis' lineup for each of their eight games this postseason, but he'll sit for the first time tonight. He has two assists and a minus-3 rating during the playoffs. Ivan Barbashev, Luke Opilka, Dmitrij Jaskin and Jordan Schmaltz will also watch the game from the press box.

Vladimir Sobotka is slated to play with Paul Stastny and Vladimir Tarasenko.

The Blues have practiced with that combination for the past two days. Brayden Schenn is projected to play between Jaden Schwartz and Dmitrij Jaskin. Barring a change at the morning skate, this will probably be what the Blues' top-two lines look like on Wednesday night against Pittsburgh.

Magnus Paajarvi has signed a one-year, $800,000 contract extension with the St. Louis Blues.

That's up from the $700,000 Paajarvi made during the 2016-17 campaign. He had eight goals and 13 points in 32 contests last season. He'll be eligible to become an unrestricted free agent for the first time in the summer of 2018.

Fabbri underwent surgery for a torn ACL on Feb. 4 and was cleared in July. However, he noticed swelling after playing in a preseason game on Friday and from there it was determined that his ACL was torn again. "In a situation like this, everyone is looking for a villain, everybody is looking for why it happened. Unfortunately this is an ice hockey injury," Blues GM Doug Armstrong said. "Robby is in that uncomfortable three percent of players that had a reoccurrence of this injury." As previously reported, Fabbri has been ruled out for all of the 2017-18 campaign. He will also be held out of the playoffs should the Blues make it that far.

Blais, who was a sixth-round pick of the Blues during the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, was called up after picking up four points in two AHL games this season. The Blues are hurting up top, with injuries to Fabbri, Berglund, Sanford and Steen. Blais is a talented forward but shouldn't be picked up in fantasy leagues at this time.

Tarasenko cut the deficit to 2-1 with under four minutes remaining in regulation, but that's as close as the Blues would come to tying the game. The Russian sniper finished the game with a plus-1 rating and three shots on goal in 19:51 of ice time. Tarasenko now has four goals and two assists in six games this season.

Jaskin was scratched for Tuesday's game against the Rangers because he was late for a team meeting. "I slept through the alarm," Jaskin said. "It's my mistake. There's no excuses. I'll try and learn from that and it will never happen again." He played on the third line versus Florida and logged 11:11 of ice time.

Thorburn will essentially replace Ryan Reaves, who retired last month, as the Blues' resident tough guy. If your league doesn't value penalty minutes, Thorburn has no fantasy value as his four points in 64 games just won't cut it.

Parayko has already established himself as a great defender and has 68 points in 160 career games, but given that he's still just 24 years old it's not hard to believe that he can continue to improve. St. Louis signed him to a five-year, $27.5 million extension on Thursday and avoided an arbitration hearing in the process. "I said at the end of the year we viewed him as a nucleus, a cornerstone player," Armstrong said. "He's only had two years experience and it usually takes 300 games when guys settle in to a constant rhythm in that position. He's still very young, but has a huge upside with his size, skating, shot. There are a lot of elements there. We'll work with him to maximize every element to become a top end player."

Joel Edmundson is expected to take on a larger role with the Blues in 2017-18.

Edmundson has formed a solid shutdown pairing with Colton Parayko and the duo was impressive in the playoffs. "I feel like I've been around long enough," said the 23-year-old blueliner. "I can definitely lead the way to the younger guys. ... Having a full year of experience, going through the playoffs last year, the confidence (this year) was there. I think that's what's going to be good for our group going into next year." His offensive success in the postseason may give him confidence to get involved in the play more often during the regular season. Still, he probably won't have much in the way of fantasy value next year.

Carl Gunnarsson got his second goal of 2017-18 in Tuesday's 3-1 win over the New York Rangers.

Gunnarsson opened the scoring in the match just 15 seconds into the first period. He has already accounted for three points in four games this campaign after he had only six assists in 56 appearances last season.

Robert Bortuzzo will return to action for Game 2 on Friday against the Wild.

He's expected to pair with Carl Gunnarsson. Bortuzzo missed the last six games with an upper body injury. Through 38 games this season the physical defender posted four points with 50 blocks and 77 hits.

Despite scoring his first career goal on Thursday, Vince Dunn is still adjusting to life in the NHL.

"You want to create the offense, but if you mess up, there’s a pretty good chance it might go in the back of your net," Dunn said. "I’m trying to take care of defense first and now I’m starting to find more opportunities to jump into the play and I’m getting more comfortable with making plays with the puck. … I just want to focus on my defense. I know if I get the puck I’m going to make the right play 90 percent of the time. I’m just trying to think defense first. When the offensive chances are there, I’ve got to make a play, got to jump in the rush." Dunn probably won't have any fantasy value this year, but he could be a solid puck-moving defenseman down the line. He's someone to keep an eye on in dynasty leagues.

Allen blanked the Bolts in the first period, but he gave up a power play goal to Tyler Johnson midway through the second frame. He also allowed a goal to Nikita Kucherov early in the third frame to go up 2-0. Allen won his first three games of the season, but he's dropped back-to-back decisions. He has a 3-2-0 record with a 2.96 goals-against-average and a .917 save percentage this season.

Carter Hutton turned aside 32 of 33 shots in Tuesday's 3-1 win over the New York Rangers.

He looked good in his first start of the season. The only goal Hutton allowed was a power play marker by Mika Zibanejad in the first period. He's a good backup goaltender, but he won't have any value in fantasy leagues. He'll enter his next game with a 1.00 goals-against-average and a .970 save percentage.